http://newfocus.hu/ filtered by the freaks 60 http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/5/5/how-will-memristors-change-everything.html Today there is rough price parity between (1) one database access, (2) ten bytes of network traffic, (3) 100,000 instructions, (4) 10 bytes of disk storage, and (5) a megabyte of disk bandwidth. This has implications for how one structures Internet-scale soobrosa Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:31:36 +0000 bestof breakthrough future innovation memristor technology http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/17/100517fa_fact_ioffe?printable=true The teen-ager behind Chatroulette. soobrosa Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:55:19 +0000 bestof media product psychology technology http://gigaom.com/2010/06/06/lazy-hazy-crazy-the-10-laws-of-behavioral-cloudonomics/ Lazy, as in minimizing physical, cognitive, emotional and real dollar costs; hazy, as in using heuristics or rules of thumb rather than precise calculations; and crazy, or, as MIT’s Dan Ariely says in his book of the same name, “Predictably Irrational soobrosa Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:54:20 +0000 bestof business it product psychology technology http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125798004542744219.html Maybe it's time to bring my old white board out of retirement, and rethink some of those old projects. soobrosa Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:02:03 +0000 bestof business diy society technology http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/the-athens-affair/0 How some extremely smart hackers pulled off the most audacious cell-network break-in ever. soobrosa Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:15:39 +0000 bestof espionage greece hacking mobile story technology vodafone wiretapping http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/28/clive-sinclair-interview-simon-garfield/print The entrepreneur and innovator tells about inspiration, determination and why he doesn't do email. soobrosa Mon, 03 May 2010 13:58:17 +0000 bestof portrait profile technology uk http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-04/28/behind-the-scenes-with-the-men-who-deploy-airstrikes Strapped to his chest, Rosner carries a handheld video player. The device reads signals transmitted by the camera pods strapped to the underside of all NATO fighter aircraft. Rosner can see everything a pilot sees, from the pilot's perspective. lipi Mon, 03 May 2010 12:54:58 +0000 bestof military technology wired http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-drone-crews21-2010feb21,0,2614633.story?track=rss In a low, tan building in Nevada, Air Force personnel sit in padded chairs and control aircraft over Iraq and Afghanistan. They are 7,500 miles away, yet feel more affected by war than ever. lipi Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:34:09 +0000 bestof drone military psychology technology war http://www.slate.com/id/2244198/pagenum/all/ The writer Douglas Adams observed how technology that existed when we were born seems normal, anything that is developed before we turn 35 is exciting, and whatever comes after that is treated with suspicion. lipi Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:44:59 +0000 oldfarts slate technology http://www.vogue.com/feature/2009/07/machine-dreams/ At 34, Marissa Mayer is possibly the world's most poised and powerful information guru. What makes this woman click? soobrosa Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:33:56 +0000 bestof business portrait profile technology http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/baby-tracking/ What parents need is a good inoculation of common sense and some self-esteem, to realize that they can do this without a tool. Just because we have computers and hand-held devices, doesn’t mean we need a tracking device. soobrosa Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:32:50 +0000 bestof child childrearing children data obsession parenting technology http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/10/29/google-redefines-disruption-the-“less-than-free”-business-model/ Google will pay you to use their mobile OS. lipi Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:38:20 +0000 bestof business free freemium good enough google gps technology http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/magazine/17-09/ff_goodenough?currentPage=all Entire markets have been transformed by products that trade power or fidelity for low price, flexibility, and convenience. lipi Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:42:16 +0000 bestof business healthcare massmarket military mp3 technology http://codybrown.name/2009/08/06/myspace-is-to-facebook-as-twitter-is-to-______/ Addressing what’s wrong with Twitter isn’t going to come from thin air. It’s going to take a lot of time, development, and platform competition. soobrosa Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:29:49 +0000 bestof business development evolution media online society technology http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/fashion/09blogfree.html?pagewanted=print "It’s nice to keep something off the record. It’s kind of fun.” soobrosa Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:26:39 +0000 bestof media realtime technology twitter